PRAYER FOR UNITY

PRAYER FOR UNITY

While casually reporting practice targets from the NRA
litter the ground of terrorist training camps we found,
we bomb hospitals, mosques, allies, red cross,
till there is no running water, no electricity,
no food and no home for anyone left alive.
Still chasing specters and shadows hiding in caves,
we make plans to leave, saying the job is done.
We spent enough money; let someone else pick up after us,
we are on our way after fresh game, in the cause of justice
and the shame of infinite devastation.

Muslims call me infidel though I worship the same God,
in Whose eyes we are one.

The rest of the world calls me murderer
though I cry for the victims both living and dead.

My family and friends, acquaintances, co-workers
call me traitor because I feel compassion
for a nation caught in the crossfire
of a personal vendetta acted out by a country
whose 'soldiers' face no danger greater
than being hit by their own planes.

How I struggle to tolerate, confronting the tendency
to judge or condemn their desire for war,
yet they cannot allow my point of view
or forgive my prayer for peace!

Patriotism, terrorism, nationalism, fanaticism,
pacifism, capitalism, tribalism---
are schisms.

No one is all right and no one is all wrong. Your reflection
is myself being split in two. Humanity is diversity;
conformity is entropy. The soul of man is a bird with broken wings.
May we learn to radiate so much love that bombs will be defused,
falling weightlessly to the ground like deflated balloons.
By the grace of God, being conscious of Him, may we join together
and walk with light in the company of angels wherever blood is shed
until every last man lays down his weapon and sings…

~ Broken Wings ~

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